Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-03-18

Books mentioned on Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?

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Anyone who knows anything about Jean-Claude Van Damme knows he played a French legionnaire in the movies. He was just one of many actors to star in films that romanticized this mercenary force.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The expendables

   Leonard B. Scott · at 11:31

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   “well you know what's funny is they are I read an article there's a article in the December 2012 Vanity Fair called The Expendables it's pretty interesting it's about the French Foreign Legion”

   Josh Clark Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion? 2023-03-18 Listen at 11:31

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